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Mug Hunt for Missions!
How many coffee cups are in your kitchen? How many of them represent Moravian churches or agencies, or other agencies whose care makes a difference in the world? Would you like to donate any of those mugs to a fun Home Church project? Each year, the Home Church congregation enjoys a mission lovefeast, usually scheduled for a Sunday in early February. With our 2024 mission lovefeast behind us, we’re looking forward to a special project for next year: the 2025 Mission Lovefeast Mug Giveaway! Here’s the idea: For the rest of this year, we’ll collect mugs representing our mission partners—congregations, agencies, and other groups to whom we are connected through our outreach giving or mutual service. In our 2025 mission lovefeast, we’ll serve lovefeast coffee in those mugs—and everyone gets to keep their mug to take home! It will be a great way of showing all the ways Home Church connects with others doing God’s work in the world. Mugs will be collected and stored at the church throughout this year, so bring them by the church office whenever it’s convenient for you. You might even ask local agencies whether they’d like to contribute a mug or two. Let’s work together to make this happen!
HMC Caregiver Support Group January Meeting
Do you care for an aging loved one?
Please join our support group for those who have aging loved ones and who are struggling with how to best support them. Let’s share our experiences, strategies for caring for our loved ones with dementia, ideas for battling the isolation brought on by the disease, helpful readings on the subject, and be supportive in the journey.
Our next meeting is Monday, 1/27/25, at 7 pm.
Please get in touch with Debby Pyatt (timdebpyatt@gmail.com, 919-360-8345) if you’re interested in joining this group or have questions. Zoom details are below..
Topic: HMC Caregiver Support Group January Meeting
Time: Monday, Jan 27, 2025 7:00 PM
Meeting ID: 826 3671 9165
Passcode: 964097
Art for Albania 2025: Calling All Home Church Artists and Collectors
In 2019, Art for Albania invited local artists, including many from within the Home Church congregation, to support the Moravian Church in Albania through the exhibition and sale of art. Enormously successful, Art for Albania hosted dozens of artists, providing each an elegant opportunity to display and sell their work. Simultaneously, the Sale generated substantial resources to support the work of the Moravians in Albania. The Moravian Church in Albania ministers to some of the neediest people in all of Europe, people who endured decades of communist rule, and who now suffer continuous physical, emotional and spiritual want. The Moravian Church is the Presence of Christ to the needy people it serves.
This year Art for Albania returns on October 11 and will be held as before in the Salem Fine Arts Center. Whether you consider yourself a successful selling artist or simply a lover of creating art, you are invited to become a part of Art for Albania 2025. The show will include graphic work and paintings, fiber and fabric work, pottery and sculpture, jewelry, collage and more. Limited openings exist in any art show of this kind. Home Church artists are given opportunity to participate before any invitation is released to the wider arts community.
In addition to inviting artists to show and sell their work through Art for Albania, the planners hope also that Home Church members will donate existing work from their personal collections. Donations of original work, giclees, limited addition prints and art in any medium will be welcomed. If you have art that you would be willing to contribute to Art for Albania, be assured that the sale of your donated work will benefit struggling Moravian ministries in Albania and the people they serve.
To learn more, or to receive a Prospectus detailing the terms for artist participation, contact David Piner at wdavidpiner@gmail.com or call David at 336-408-6981. Please mark your calendars for Art for Albania, October 11, 2025, 9:00AM to 3:00PM. And spread the word personally and through social media. Come, enjoy the fun, and support the Albania Moravian Church’s crucial work among the least of our brothers and sisters.
Provide dinner for a Winter Overflow Shelter
There are three overflow shelters supported by The Dwelling this winter. They need help providing dinners. Circles or individuals can sign up to help.
Check out the Dwelling website for more information – www.thedwellingws.org
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